Wittick's Adm'r v. Keiffer
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Lowndes. Tried before tbe Hon. RobeRT Dougherty. This action was brought by Henry Traun, as the administrator of Frederick Wittick, deceased, against Louis Keiffer and Mary, bis wife, to recover a slave named Betsey, with two of her children, together with damages for their detention.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Lowndes. Tried before tbe Hon. RobeRT Dougherty. This action was brought by Henry Traun, as the administrator of Frederick Wittick, deceased, against Louis Keiffer and Mary, bis wife, to recover a slave named Betsey, with two of her children, together with damages for their detention. It is the action referred to in the previous case between the same parties, as reported on page 136. The defendants having failed, for five days, to execute the statutory bond, and the plaintiff having given bond according to the requisitions of the statute, the slaves were…
1Opinion of the Court
■WALKER, J.
— The question as to the admissibility of Mrs. Keiffer’s declai'ation to the witness Hardy, at the time of the appraisement of the property of plaintiff’s *201intestate, is identical with, a question in tlie case decided at this term between the same parties. "We decide the question, upon the authority of that decision, against the appellant.
2. In the case of Garrett v. Garrett, 29 Ala. 439, we adopted the following as a correct statement of the value of verbal admissions as evidence': “ "When a verbal admission is deliberately made, and precisely identified, the evidence it affords is…
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